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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow/near/126760274" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow.html#126760274">(May 18 2018 at 17:28)</a>:</h4>
<p>Hmm <span class="user-mention" data-user-id="116155">@Jake Goulding</span> your recent question got me thinking. Do you the maintainer folk of stack overflow make any effort to quantify the sorts of questions you get?</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow/near/126760278" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow.html#126760278">(May 18 2018 at 17:28)</a>:</h4>
<p>it seems like that could be awesome data about the kinds of patterns that trip people up</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow/near/126760283" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow.html#126760283">(May 18 2018 at 17:28)</a>:</h4>
<p>features that are confusing</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow/near/126760285" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow.html#126760285">(May 18 2018 at 17:28)</a>:</h4>
<p>etc :)</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow/near/126760354" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jake Goulding <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow.html#126760354">(May 18 2018 at 17:30)</a>:</h4>
<p>There's loose quantification via the tagging system. If you search for <code>[rust]</code> you see a list of related tags, for example:</p>
<p>lifetime × 515<br>
traits × 408<br>
rust-cargo × 394<br>
borrow-checker × 301<br>
generics × 251<br>
iterator × 225<br>
macros × 197<br>
string × 196<br>
ffi × 191<br>
vector × 162</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow/near/126760358" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow.html#126760358">(May 18 2018 at 17:30)</a>:</h4>
<p>interesting.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow/near/126760360" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow.html#126760360">(May 18 2018 at 17:30)</a>:</h4>
<p>I should think a bit more carefully about the kind of queries I'd like to run</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow/near/126760368" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow.html#126760368">(May 18 2018 at 17:30)</a>:</h4>
<p>/me senses a project he could use to learn him some machine learning</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow/near/126760376" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow.html#126760376">(May 18 2018 at 17:31)</a>:</h4>
<p>though surely somebody is doing this already</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow/near/126760394" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jake Goulding <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow.html#126760394">(May 18 2018 at 17:32)</a>:</h4>
<p>I try to ensure links to issues are present when there's an actual bug, but it doesn't sounds like you want bugs <em>per se</em>, but more of conceptual roadblocks</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow/near/126760439" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jake Goulding <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow.html#126760439">(May 18 2018 at 17:32)</a>:</h4>
<p>There's also <a href="http://data.stackexchange.com/" target="_blank" title="http://data.stackexchange.com/">http://data.stackexchange.com/</a> if your SQL skillz are good. It's a weekly dump of the entire database.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow/near/126760450" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow.html#126760450">(May 18 2018 at 17:33)</a>:</h4>
<p>I mean... I know as much SQL as the next person, I guess :)</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow/near/126760454" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow.html#126760454">(May 18 2018 at 17:33)</a>:</h4>
<p>something something <code>SELECT</code> something something :)</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow/near/126760458" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122657-t-compiler/wg-nll/topic/quantify-stackoverflow.html#126760458">(May 18 2018 at 17:33)</a>:</h4>
<p>thanks</p>



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